Analysis of It don't sound so terrible—quite—as it did
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
It don't sound so terrible—quite—as it did—
I run it over—"Dead", Brain, "Dead."
Put it in Latin—left of my school—
Seems it don't shriek so—under rule.
Turn it, a little—full in the face
A Trouble looks bitterest—
Shift it—just—
Say "When Tomorrow comes this way—
I shall have waded down one Day."
I suppose it will interrupt me some
Till I get accustomed—but then the Tomb
Like other new Things—shows largest—then—
And smaller, by Habit—
It's shrewder then
Put the Thought in advance—a Year—
How like "a fit"—then—
Murder—wear!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111001111 11110111 110101111 11111101 110101001 0101100 111 1101111 11110111 101110111 1110101101 110111101 010110 111 10100101 11011 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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